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mollykatheryn
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Books I’ve read recently:

  • Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Ender’s Shadow by OSC
  • Ender in Exile by OSC
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
  • The Mist by Stephen King
  • Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
  • How to Talk to Girls at Parties (short) by Neil Gaiman
  • Shadow of the Hegemon by OSC
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Books/Collections I’m reading now:

  • Under the Dome by Stephen King
  • Shadow Puppets by OSC
  • Welcome to the Monkey House (collection) by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Shadow of the Hegemon by OSC
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  • Vampires in the Lemon Grove (collection) by Karen Russell
  • Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
  • Jazz by Toni Morrison
  • After the Apocalypse (collection) by Maureen F. McHugh
  • The Quiet (novella) by Robert S. Wilson

Books I’m looking forward to reading next:

  • The entirety of the Ender-verse (in as close to chronological order I can get, not publishing order) by OSC
  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
  • The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
  • Under the Dome by Stephen King
  • Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  • Salem's Lot by Stephen King
  • …and tons and tons and tons more, let’s be real.
stuff i'm reading it's really a shame that OSC is such a homophobe because he would be making some nice royalties off of me if i respected him enough to pay for all of these books of his i'm reading

Books I’ve read recently:

  • Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Ender’s Shadow by OSC
  • Ender in Exile by OSC
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
  • The Mist by Stephen King
  • Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
  • How to Talk to Girls at Parties (short) by Neil Gaiman

Books/Collections I’m reading now:

  • Welcome to the Monkey House (collection) by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Shadow of the Hegemon by OSC
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  • Vampires in the Lemon Grove (collection) by Karen Russell
  • Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
  • Jazz by Toni Morrison
  • After the Apocalypse (collection) by Maureen F. McHugh

Books I’m looking forward to reading next:

  • The entirety of the Ender-verse (in as close to chronological order I can get, not publishing order) by OSC
  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
  • The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
  • Under the Dome by Stephen King
  • Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • …and tons and tons and tons more, let’s be real.
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mollykatheryn
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Stuff I’ve read (relatively) recently:

  • Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Ender’s Shadow by OSC
  • Ender in Exile by OSC
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
  • The Mist by Stephen King
  • Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
  • How to Talk to Girls at Parties (short) by Neil Gaiman
  • Shadow of the Hegemon by OSC
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  • Shadow Puppets by OSC
  • Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
  • The Quiet (novella) by Robert S. Wilson
  • Terra by Mitch Benn
  • Wool 4 by Hugh Howey
  • Zombie by JR Angelella
  • Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  • Jazz by Toni Morrison
  • Welcome to the Monkey House (collection) by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
  • Divergent by Veronica Roth
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • Speaker for the Dead by OSC
  • Xenocide by OSC
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Shelved because I just cannot:
  • Vampires in the Lemon Grove (collection) by Karen Russell [the first short story, after which the collection is named, was great! but I just couldn’t get into any of the others]

Stuff I’m reading now:

  • Under the Dome by Stephen King
  • After the Apocalypse (collection) by Maureen F. McHugh
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Speaker for the Dead by OSC
  • Xenocide by OSC
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  • Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  • Shadow Puppets by OSC
  • Welcome to the Monkey House (collection) by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Shadow of the Hegemon by OSC
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  • Vampires in the Lemon Grove (collection) by Karen Russell
  • Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
  • Jazz by Toni Morrison
  • Terra by Mitch Benn
  • The Quiet (novella) by Robert S. Wilson
  • Wool 4 by Hugh Howey
  • Zombie by JR Angelella
  • Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
  • Divergent by Veronica Roth
  • Speaker for the Dead by OSC

Random stuff I’m REREADING now:

  • The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
  • Intentional Dissonance by Iain S. Thomas
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  • The Stand by Stephen King

Stuff I’m looking forward to reading next:

  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  • Under the Dome by Stephen King
  • Divergent by Veronica Roth
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  • Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
  • Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  • The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
  • The entirety of the Ender-verse by OSC
  • Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
  • The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
  • Bloodchild (collection) by Octavia E. Butler
  • Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  • The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • Angelfall by Susan Ee
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick
  • Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
  • About a Boy by Nick Hornby
  • Everything’s Eventual (collection) by Stephen King
  • Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Wool 5 by Hugh Howey
  • Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
  • We Are Water by Wally Lamb
  • Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
  • Virinconium by M. John Harrison
  • Horns by Joe Hill
  • The Passage by Justin Cronin
  • The Old Man and the Wasteland by Nick Cole
  • Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart
  • Bossypants by Tina Fey
  • The Secret Country by Pamela Dean
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Discworld (series) by Terry Pratchett
  • Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
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stuff i'm reading finished 5 books in a week boom i'm going to dive into the handmaid's tale and 2nd foundation next and try and finish oryx and crake soon
professorspork
maggie-stiefvater

Here is a lie we’ve all been told: books will make you smart.

This week, the Internet churns once more over the latest article denouncing adults who read young adult fiction. The argument is always the same: young adult/ thrillers/ romance/ sci-fi/ chicklit/ picture books/ subway maps are not as good for you as adult literary/ nonfiction/ dead Russians/ the calorie lists on Chipotle menus. Lovers of the former are always ready with a defense — either that the former really are as quality as the latter, or that not everything you put in your brain has to be good for you.

Rather than contemplating a new defense — surely, I could, as I write young adult fiction —I wondered instead why we keep seeing the same scuffle in different hats.

And I think it’s because of this untruth: books will make you smart.

I believe the book industry may be one of the few industries that promises you will actually become more clever if you buy their product. Car companies might swear you’ll look cooler in an Audi than a Kia, but they don’t tell you that you’ll actually become a better person behind the wheel of one. Computer companies might shout that their equipment is smarter, but they stop short of promising that your entire life philosophy will improve if you buy their products. When I bought my office chair, no one told me, “Well done. People who sit in leather chairs turn out to be stronger women.”

But we have this prevailing theory that books will make you smart, and it’s this theory that allows us to judge a book’s quality by how far it stretches your mind. According to this idea, if it doesn’t make you smarter, it’s a lesser book. It becomes a guilty pleasure, like food that doesn’t contribute to your daily vitamin requirement. Cue up the articles on the tragedy of the populace reading young adult, or turning to magazines, or — horrors, shall I whisper it — watching television in lieu of reading.

Don’t they know that reading makes you clever? Don’t they know that television and movies are for non-intellectuals? Hoi polloi turn the TV on. If you’re someone who’s going to be someone, you open a book.

But books aren’t smart: stories are.

Not all stories, of course. There are wise stories and flippant stories, stories that stretch your mind and stories that only make you laugh. Stories that are true and stories that won’t ever be true.

A book is merely a medium for carrying a story. So is a television series. So is a movie. So is a play, or a or a puppet show, a video game, a note from a stranger. The medium itself carries absolutely no promise of intellectual content. There are shallow books and world-changing movies. There are ridiculous non-fiction texts and complex young adult novels.

A book is just words. A movie is just images. These things can’t change you.

Only the story can.

So if we can accept that books can — and are meant to — fulfill all kinds of purposes, we can stop pretending that a good book only means a book that demands probing analysis. If we can further accept that genre is merely a jacket for the story, we can possibly also stop arguing that this shelf or that shelf in the bookstore has the corner on intellectual greatness. Someone who writes smart stories can put them into any form, any medium, any length — and they do. Look at the artists who work across several different forms. Do they grow more or less clever when their stories are filmed or shelved, packaged for grown-ups or packaged for teens? If you long for a mind-bending story, you can find them anywhere, if you look for them. If you’re looking for a stupid story, I promise you that you can find them anywhere, too. If you’re looking for grotesque generalizations, you’ll also find that confirmation bias is a powerful thing.

Books don’t make you smart. Stories do. And that is a truth I’ll defend to anyone.

Source: maggie-stiefvater yes also i have never felt like i read books because i wanted to get smarter ??????? i just love reading i love the stories
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Re-reading Better Run, Outrun My Gun
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You should re-read it too.

And while you’re reading, I IMPLORE you to write up a plan for what you would do if there was a zombie apocalypse. That means shelter, food, weapons, clothing, where you would go, who you would pick up. One of the most important things is transportation! You’ll probably want to get a hybrid because gas will be hard to find on the road OR it will be hard to obtain if you’re in the same place. Hummers, although awesome for smashing through hordes of zombies, are not the most gas friendly.

(so really, look for a smaller, more gas efficient car if you’ll be traveling, and bigger cars if you;re staying in the same place to just go pick up supplies etc.)

Sewing kits, canned goods, disinfectant, bandages, sleepwear etc. Things like LOTS OF UNDERWEAR. Like, just get a bag and toss it in your car. Some things people also don’t think about is how much hard liquor you will need to take the edge off.

Also, TARPS are a godsend. They have dual purpose: cover to protect from rain AND can hold a bunch of things all at once.

Mhm. Firewood too. So get an ax. And some matches.

mollykatheryn

I keep my hammer in my desk drawer…

Just in case.

zombies though and thanks for (re)reading!!
xactodreams

The Lesbrary Goodreads Project

fuckyeahlesbianliterature fuckyeahlesbianliterature

So after running this tumblr and the Lesbrary for a couple years, I’ve gathered together a couple lists of specific lesbian (etc) books about specific topics, and I’ve stumbled on some similar lists other people have made. In order to keep them a little more organized, I’ve decided to put them all up on Goodreads. Here are the ones I have so far:

Specific identities:

Specific genres/content:

Good Lesbian Books’s lists that I haven’t put on Goodreads:

The good thing about the Goodreads lists is that you can add books and vote for your favorites!

Source: biandlesbianliterature reading
professorspork
gambitia gambitia

There are some authors who take days or months to choose their characters’ names, trying to find the exact string of syllables to represent everything the character is.

And then there’s Terry Pratchett, whose method seems to be throwing open a dictionary and choosing the first word he sees.

"Moist?  Yep.  Gonna write three books about a dude named Moist" — Terry Pratchett, probably

reverse-mermaid

#see also: #ponder stibbons #carrot #adora belle #mr teatime #mr pin and mr tulip #mr slant #lt blouse #mightily oats #reacher gilt #lord rust #seldom bucket #and my all-time favorite: bestiality carver

Source: a-gamb started reading his Discworld series and i can confirm: this is highly accurate information
mollykatheryn
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Books I’ve read recently:

  • Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Ender’s Shadow by OSC
  • Ender in Exile by OSC
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
  • The Mist by Stephen King
  • Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
  • How to Talk to Girls at Parties (short) by Neil Gaiman
  • Shadow of the Hegemon by OSC
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  • Shadow Puppets by OSC
  • Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
  • The Quiet (novella) by Robert S. Wilson
  • Terra by Mitch Benn
  • Wool 4 by Hugh Howey
  • Zombie by JR Angelella
  • Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Books/Collections I’m reading now:

  • Under the Dome by Stephen King
  • Shadow Puppets by OSC
  • Welcome to the Monkey House (collection) by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Shadow of the Hegemon by OSC
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  • Vampires in the Lemon Grove (collection) by Karen Russell
  • Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
  • Jazz by Toni Morrison
  • After the Apocalypse (collection) by Maureen F. McHugh
  • The Quiet (novella) by Robert S. Wilson
  • Wool 4 by Hugh Howey
  • Zombie by JR Angelella
  • Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Books I’m looking forward to reading next:

  • The entirety of the Ender-verse by OSC
  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
  • The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
  • Under the Dome by Stephen King
  • Bloodchild (collection) by Octavia E. Butler
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  • Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  • The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • Divergent by Veronica Roth
  • Angelfall by Susan Ee
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick
  • Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
  • About a Boy by Nick Hornby
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Everything’s Eventual (collection) by Stephen King
  • Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  • Wool 5 by Hugh Howey
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Books I’ve read recently:

  • Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Ender’s Shadow by OSC
  • Ender in Exile by OSC
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
  • The Mist by Stephen King
  • Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
  • How to Talk to Girls at Parties (short) by Neil Gaiman
  • Shadow of the Hegemon by OSC
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  • Shadow Puppets by OSC
  • Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
  • The Quiet (novella) by Robert S. Wilson
  • Terra by Mitch Benn

Books/Collections I’m reading now:

  • Under the Dome by Stephen King
  • Shadow Puppets by OSC
  • Welcome to the Monkey House (collection) by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Shadow of the Hegemon by OSC
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  • Vampires in the Lemon Grove (collection) by Karen Russell
  • Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
  • Jazz by Toni Morrison
  • After the Apocalypse (collection) by Maureen F. McHugh
  • The Quiet (novella) by Robert S. Wilson
  • Wool 4 by Hugh Howey
  • Zombie by JR Angelella
  • Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Books I’m looking forward to reading next:

  • The entirety of the Ender-verse by OSC
  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
  • The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
  • Under the Dome by Stephen King
  • Bloodchild (collection) by Octavia E. Butler
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  • Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  • The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • Divergent by Veronica Roth
  • Angelfall by Susan Ee
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick
  • Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
  • About a Boy by Nick Hornby
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Everything's Eventual (collection) by Stephen King
  • Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
stuff i'm reading bought and read 'terra' in one day good stuff
mollykatheryn
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Books I’ve read recently:

  • Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Ender’s Shadow by OSC
  • Ender in Exile by OSC
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
  • The Mist by Stephen King
  • Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
  • How to Talk to Girls at Parties (short) by Neil Gaiman
  • Shadow of the Hegemon by OSC
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  • Shadow Puppets by OSC
  • Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
  • The Quiet (novella) by Robert S. Wilson
  • Terra by Mitch Benn
  • Wool 4 by Hugh Howey
  • Zombie by JR Angelella
  • Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  • Jazz by Toni Morrison
  • Welcome to the Monkey House (collection) by Kurt Vonnegut

Shelved because I just cannot:

  • Vampires in the Lemon Grove (collection) by Karen Russell [the first short story, after which the collection is named, was great! but I just couldn't get into any of the others]

Books/Collections I’m reading now:

  • Under the Dome by Stephen King
  • Shadow Puppets by OSC
  • Welcome to the Monkey House (collection) by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Shadow of the Hegemon by OSC
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  • Vampires in the Lemon Grove (collection) by Karen Russell
  • Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
  • Jazz by Toni Morrison
  • After the Apocalypse (collection) by Maureen F. McHugh
  • Terra by Mitch Benn
  • The Quiet (novella) by Robert S. Wilson
  • Wool 4 by Hugh Howey
  • Zombie by JR Angelella
  • Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Books I’m looking forward to reading next:

  • The entirety of the Ender-verse by OSC
  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
  • The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
  • Under the Dome by Stephen King
  • Bloodchild (collection) by Octavia E. Butler
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  • Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  • The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • Divergent by Veronica Roth
  • Angelfall by Susan Ee
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick
  • Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
  • About a Boy by Nick Hornby
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Everything’s Eventual (collection) by Stephen King
  • Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  • Wool 5 by Hugh Howey
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